The Pahiatua Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1927. WATER POWER.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10450, 22 January 1927, Page 4

The Pahiatua Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1927. WATER POWER.

It liais been calculated tliat every American has thei working strength of 40-horse power at his disposal, supplied by steam, oil and electricity. This power is produced annually by 800 million tons of coal. But the consumption of oil seems to be even greater. Engineers further declare that America has water power still unused to the amounts of 30 million horse-power yearly. It is their dream to make use of these untapped waterforces for the industries of the country, and in part this dream is shortly to be realised. The reports of the big electrical company in Sheneetady indicate that the waters of the Oregon, which flows through large tracts of the States, are to he turned to industrial use. This plan, which is already being put into practice, will mobilise 800,000 horse-power of electrical energy and convert hundreds of thousands of acres of waste land into fertile fields, call dozens of big industrial concerns into being, and found a brand-new town, which will be clean with, the cleanness of one knowing neither coal nor smoke. The site has been chosen near the Priest Rapids, some fine falls of flic height of nearly 100 feet. At this point the largest dam in the world is to be erected, which will lie larger than the Nile Dam near Assouan, After that the electrical model city of the future will be built with dwellings for a, population of 40.000 workers and factories without chimneys.